NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI6
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (42W vs 150W)
AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1233MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 20.80GB/s)
2272 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition
0.067 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI6
+8380%
5.682 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2008
Release Date
Dec 2016
Quadro FX
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1120 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1233 MHz
650 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
20.80GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
2304
16
TMUs
144
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.160 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.46 GPixel/s
8.320 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
177.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.682 TFLOPS
66.56 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.682 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
355.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
42W
TDP
150W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Ellesmere
-
GPU Variant
Ellesmere XT
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
80 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
